There they come from Via Galvani, _carabinieri_, policemen, prisoners, and the crowd.

One of the solitary onlookers, moved by curiosity, approaches another spectator, and inquired what has occurred in the district.

The other is in complete ignorance.

The two join company, and question a citizen, who appears to have had enough of it; to be about to leave.

The citizen replies that up there at a villa near Sant' Anselmo lives a holy man, who is adored by the whole quarter, because he visits the sick, healing many, and talking of religion better than the priests themselves: so they call him "the Saint"; or rather, "the Saint of Jenne," because he performed many miracles in a town in the hills, called Jenne.